Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana 2025 SF Chronicle This seminar is made possible

This seminar is made possible through Peter Andrews of Culture Wine Co

that meant a return to the old Burgundy template: lower alcohol

and beautifully balanced

A cold pre-fermentation extraction

The role of cooperage and Nathan's barrel-making craft

Forjas del Salnes Albarino Leirana 2025 SF Chronicle This seminar is made possibleRias Baixas sits barely a few miles from the Atlantic, and you can taste it. Rodrigo Mendez farms granite rooted vines in Val do Salnes, the birthplace of Albarino, where more than five feet of rain a year and relentless sea wind make farming a fight and where the poor, sandy granite soils have kept old vines alive for over a century. Leirana is his everyday bottling and it is anything but ordinary: native yeast fermentation, mostly neutral foudre